It’s been a while, but the team behind Kendal Poetry Festival (ie Pauline and I) have quietly yet frantically been working away behind the scenes. We’ve spent the last few months putting together grant applications to fund the 2018 Kendal Poetry Festival, and it is with great relief and excitement that we can say we…

We’re really excited to announce we have a date for the 2018 Kendal Poetry Festival – so please pencil it into your diaries! Subject to funding, the festival will be taking place from the 7th-9th September 2018. Due to the sell-out success of the last two years, we’ve come to the difficult decision that we’ve…

The Kendal Poetry festival has drawn to a close for another year, and what a festival it was. We had poets who are at the top of their game come to Kendal and deliver bold and touching readings to audiences who loved every minute. On Friday we had the festival launch, opened by Michel…

This is our last ‘Five Minute Interview’ as we start to get too excited to do interviews, as the festival is only TWO DAYS AWAY! Hannah went to speak to Malcolm, the owner of Iridium, one of Kendal Poetry Festival’s favourite local shops, where you’ll find a find a range of famous names in the fields…

Hannah Hodgson has been busy interviewing Mike Barlow, the editor and publisher of Wayleave Press. Mike will be appearing at the festival to be interviewed by one of our Festival Directors, Kim Moore on Sunday 18th June at 10.30. Mike and Kim will be talking about publishing and setting up a small press. The discussion…

Martin Kratz will be giving a whistle stop tour of some of our Festival Poets during his forty five minute session. He will be looking at the general themes that many of the poets explore in their work. If you can only make a select few of our events this year, it would be an…

We can’t quite believe that there are less than three weeks to go until this year’s festival. It doesn’t seem that long ago that Pauline and I were collapsing in a little heap after the first festival. Preparations have been forging onward since I last blogged. Our official Young Blogger-in-Residence, Hannah Hodgson has been busy interviewing…

Below is a quick five minute interview with William Letford. I met William about a year ago at a writing residential that Kim Moore was running. I first discovered his work through this, and have continued reading it ever since. I am very excited to see his reading on the Friday night of…

HH: In one of my final five minute interviews, I talked to Linda Gregerson, an American poet. She is widely published with six collections of poetry and two of criticism. She has also won numerous prizes for her work, including an award from the Poetry Society of America. She will be reading in our final…

HH: I asked Kendal Poetry festival directors Kim Moore and Pauline Yarwood to take some time out from their busy schedules to answer some questions about what it is really like to start and run a poetry festival. I was Young Poet in Residence last year, and had the time of my life. Last years’…